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Licklider, J. C. R; Council on Library Resources; Bolt, Beranek, and Newman, inc., Cambridge, Mass
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Based on a study sponsored by the Council on Library Resources, inc., and conducted by Bolt, Beranek, and Newman, inc., between Nov. 1961 and Nov. 1963
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Topics: Information technology, Library science, Information technology
A FORTRAN Coloring Book
Topic: COMPUTER SCIENCE/Programming Languages
This completely revised edition of Scientific and Technical Information Sources is essentially a new book based on the framework of the 1977 edition and covering material published as recently as 1986. The first edition has been a library mainstay that has proved "invaluable to librarians, students, and scientists" (Choice). It was a major guide that went beyond the usual listings of guides to literature, dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, directories, and other secondary sources...
Topics: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Library & Information Science / General, Science,...
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-309) and index
Topics: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management, Chōsen Kōgei Kenkyūkai, Marketing, MERCADO, Marketing...
These nineteen original essays explore the ways in which political and social values help to shape health care systems by analyzing what happened to the German health care system when it split after World War II into communist and noncommunist sectors. Since both systems evolved from the same foundation they form a natural experiment in history where the same phenomenon becomes divided into an experimental and control group. The book is the first to take advantage of this unique opportunity for...
Topics: POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Medical care, Medical policy, Health insurance, Public health,...
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Lasswell, Harold Dwight, 1902-; Lerner, Daniel; Montgomery, John Dickey, 1920-; Southeast Asia Development Advisory Group
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Topics: PSYCHOLOGY / General, Economic development, Urbanization
Includes bibliographical references (page x)
Topics: ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, Input-output tables, Tableaux input-output, Economic...
The authors of these eighteen essays have all been deeply influenced by the philosophy of architecture developed by Stanford Anderson, through his writings and through the teaching program of the Department of History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture, which he and Henry Millon founded at MIT over twenty years ago. This "school" of architectural thought views architecture as a world of inquiry and as a discipline anchored in the epistemological bases of contemporary philosophy,...
Topics: Anderson, Stanford 1934-2016, Anderson, Stanford, Architecture, Modern, Architecture, City...
Bibliography: p. 447-493
Topics: Materia medica, Vegetable, Materia medica, Vegetable, Medicinal plants, Medicinal plants, Herbal...
The Perception of Multiple Objects describes a neurally inspired computational model of two-dimensional object recognition and spatial attention that can explain many characteristics of human visual perception. The model, called MORSEL (named for its ability to perform Multiple Object Recognition and attentional Selection), is unique in providing a broad and unified explanation for a wide range of experimental psychological data on visual perception and attention. Although it draws on existing...
Topics: PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology, Neural networks (Computer science), Connection machines,...
This volume brings together for the first time John von Neumann's long-out-of-print articles on computer architecture, programming, large-scale computing, and automata theory. A number of significant papers in these areas that were not included in the multivolume John von Neumann. Collected Works (1963) have now been reprinted here. These pioneering articles - written between the mid-1940s and the mid-1950s - are of enduring value not only to computer historians but to computer scientists at...
Topics: Von Neumann, John, 1903-1957, Von Neumann, John, 1903-1957, Von Neumann, John 1903-1957, Von...
Unstructured and dynamically varying algorithms are playing an increasingly important role in the solution of large-scale scientific problems on large-scale computers. This book focuses on the implementation of such algorithms on parallel computers, such as hypercubes and the Connection MachineŒ¬, that can be scaled up to incredible performances. The algorithms covered include those for partial differential equations and sparse linear algebra.The nineteen contributions describe methods to...
Topics: COMPUTERS / Computer Science, Science, Multiprocessors, Algorithms, Algorithmus, Aufsatzsammlung,...
This is the engaging story of a moment of transformation in the human sciences, a detailed account of a remarkable group of people who met regularly from 1946 to 1953 to explore the possibility of using scientific ideas that had emerged in the war years (cybernetics, information theory, computer theory) as a basis for interdisciplinary alliances. The Macy Conferences on Cybernetics, as they came to be called, included such luminaries as Norbert Wiener, John von Neumann, Margaret Mead, Gregory...
Topics: Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, Josiah Macy, Jr., Foundation, Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, Josiah...
Antennas in Matter provides both an introduction to and a comprehensive description of the properties of antennas and probes embedded within or near material bodies such as the earth, the ocean, or a living organism.The theory and application of antennas designed to transmit and receive information between points above the earth's surface are for the most part well understood. This book presents a full treatment of a sequence of research that has become increasingly important in recent...
Topics: Antennas (Electronics), Antennas (Electronics), Antennes (électronique), Antenne,...
Includes bibliographical references
Topics: ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, Rural development, Agriculture and state,...
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Carpenter, Brian E; Doran, R. W; Turing, Alan Mathison, 1912-1954. Proposal for development in the Mathematics Division of an automatic computing engine (ACE). 1986; Turing, Alan Mathison, 1912-1954. Lecture to the London Mathematical Society on 20 February 1947. 1986; Woodger, Michael. History and present use of digital computers at the National Physical Laboratory. 1986
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Volume 10 in the Babbage Reprint Series contains two archival papers by Alan Turing-the ACE report (1945), a seminal paper detailing the design for an electronic universal machine called the Automatic Computing Engine (ACE), and Turing's Lecture to the London Mathematical Society (1947) amplifying the ideas outlined in the ACE report. Turing's report was the first time that the notion of artificial intelligence was discussed as a real possibility and Turing went on to devote the next decade to...
Topics: Calculators, Electronic digital computers, Turing, ACE, historique ordinateur, Ordinateurs,...
Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-253)
Topics: Emotions, Environmental psychology, Emotions, Environment, Psychology, Experimental, Social...
Includes bibliographical references
Topics: Revolution (Cuba : 1959), Communism, Communisme, Communism, Communisme, Revolutie
Includes bibliographical references (pages [364]-373) and indexes
Topics: Coptic art, Art, Medieval, Christian antiquities, Antiquités chrétiennes, Art copte, Art copte,...
Includes bibliographical references (v. 3, pages 351-365)
Topics: Computer programming, LOGO (Computer program language), Programmation (Informatique), LOGO (Langage...
A quarter of a century after the publication of the second edition, this classic work continues to be on the reading list of graduate courses in macroeconomics. Integrating monetary theory and value theory, Money, Interest, and Prices describes the demand functions for commodities and bonds (emphasizing the real balance effect) and uses these functions to carry out a static and dynamic analysis of the central problems of monetary theory - the effects of changes in the quantity of money and...
Topics: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, Money, Interest, Prices, Geldtheorie,...
Includes bibliographical references
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Topics: Industries, Tools, Outils, Industrie, Civilization, Industries, Tools
Includes bibliographical references (v. 3, pages 351-365)
Topics: Computer programming, LOGO (Computer program language), Programmation (Informatique), LOGO (Langage...
Includes bibliographical references
Topics: Politics in art, Art and revolutions, Politique dans l'art, Art et révolutions, Art and...
The Crystal Chain - "Die glaserne Kette" - was a utopian correspondence initiated by Bruno Taut in 1919-1920, in which a small group of like-minded architects and artists exchanged ideas on what form the architecture of the future should take. Unfettered by the demands of practicability, the members of the group described their visions of an ideal society and of a beneficent architecture in a series of dazzling, fantastic letters and drawings.Although the letters are referred to in...
Topics: Taut, Bruno, 1880-1938, Taut, Bruno, 1880-1938, Taut, Bruno, Architecture, Architecture, Modern,...
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-322) and index
Topics: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Mechanical, Finite element method, Finite-Elemente-Methode,...
Diana Agrest explores the symbolic dimension of architecture from the perspective of the modern city through a remarkable range of subjects: the relationship between architectural and urban ideologies, the symbolic performance of architecture in relation to the urban condition, the formal and ideological development of a building type, the relationship between architecture and other visual discourses, and the position of gender and body in Western architecture.Diana Agrest practices...
Topics: Symbolism in architecture, Signes et symboles en architecture, Symbolisme en architecture, Design...
Engineers can profit from the revolution in AI research that is changing the ground rules of the profession. AI expert and consultant William Taylor provides a practical explanation of the parts of AI research that are ready for use by anyone with an engineering degree and that can help engineers do their jobs better.Taylor tours the field of artificial intelligence in a highly readable and engaging manner, outlining in detail how engineers can work with AI. In separate chapters he discusses...
Topic: COMPUTERS / Computer Science
W. S. McCulloch, a professor of psychiatry at Illinois, later a scientist at the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT and author of the groundbreaking book, Embodiments of Mind (reissued in paperback in 1988), was one of the founding fathers of "Cybernetics." Along with Norbert Wiener, John von Neumann, and H. von Foerster, he sought to integrate the disciplines of neurophysiology, mathematics, and engineering in a rigorous investigation into what brains do and how they do it. A...
Topics: McCulloch, Warren S. (Warren Sturgis), 1898-1969, McCulloch, Warren S. b. 1898- (Warren Sturgis),...
Looking behind the facade of tightly structured tables of organization and chains of command, this group of studies addresses the key question of how the police go about policing themselves in the real world. The contributors' point of departure is the documented evidence that the men and women on the streets enjoy considerable autonomy and discretion that make strict accountability and close supervision the exception and mutual back-scratching in the lower ranks the rule, where the code of...
Topics: Police, Organizational behavior, Police administration, Police, Comportement organisationnel,...
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-221) and index
Topics: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Phonetics, Distinctive features...
Translation of Statisticheskai͡a gidromekhanika
Topics: Hydrodynamics, Fluid mechanics, Turbulence, Hydrodynamique, Fluides, Mécanique des, Turbulence,...
Translation of the author's thesis, prepared at the Berlin Charlottenburg Technische Hochschule and published in 1937 under title: Raumordnung im griechischen Städtebau
Topics: City planning, Architecture, Greek, Espace (Architecture), Urbanisme, Architecture grecque,...
Economists have long argued that environmental regulation should rely less on command and control approaches that employ uniform standards, and more on economic incentives, such as emission charges and marketable emission permits. This book makes a major and original contribution to the "incentives vs. standards" debate by showing how different targets (the points at which incentives are applied) affect the ability of regulation to provide environmental protection at lowest possible...
Topics: SCIENCE / Environmental Science (see also Chemistry / Environmental), Environmental policy,...
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-299) and index
Topics: Programming languages (Electronic computers), Categories (Mathematics), Categorías...
This collection of original essays by economists and lawyers addresses important aspects of antitrust and regulation, such as the U.S. government's merger guidelines, antitrust in regulated industries, the connection between profitability and market share, and the question of what constitutes anticompetitive behavior. The book combines economic and legal analysis to inform policymaking with theory as well as the lessons of experience in the petroleum, electric power, computer, retail food, and...
Topics: McGowan, John J., 1936-1982, McGowan, John J, McGowan, John J., 1936-1982, McGowan, John J....
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Robot Hands and the Mechanics of Manipulation explores several aspects of the basic mechanics of grasping, pushing, and in general, manipulating objects. It makes a significant contribution to the understanding of the motion of objects in the presence of friction, and to the development of fine position and force controlled articulated hands capable of doing useful work.In the book's first section, kinematic and force analysis is applied to the problem of designing and controlling articulated...
Topics: Robot hands, Manipulators (Mechanism), Robotique, Manipulateurs (Mécanismes), Manipulators...
Includes bibliographical references and index
Topics: Aircraft gas-turbines, Aircraft gas-turbines, Flugtriebwerk, Gasturbine, Aircraft gas-turbines,...
The first few months of the universe, the MIT bag model, and grand unified theories are among the chief concerns of these essays and articles honoring MIT theoretical physicist Francis Low. The book opens with a cluster of dedicatory pieces by Murray Gell-Mann, Marvin L. Goldberger, Jeremy Bernstein, and Val L. Fitch.The remainder of the book consists of twenty technical essays by a small galaxy of distinguished scientists: Steven Weinberg; Kenneth A. Johnson; Sidney Drell; Geoffrey F. Chew;...
Topics: Low, Francis E. (Francis Eugene), 1921-2007, Low, Francis E. (Francis Eugene), 1921-2007, Low,...
Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-368) and index
Topics: MATHEMATICS / General, Number theory, Nombres, Théorie des, Diophantische Gleichung, Kettenbruch,...
Based on the NRP conference held at the University of Colorado, Boulder, 20 June-1 July, 1977
Topics: MEDICAL / Neuroscience, Neurosciences, Cerveau, Circuit neuronique, Transmission nerveuse,...
(Originally published in cloth under the title The Man of Many Qualities: A Legacy of the I Ching).
Topics: PHILOSOPHY / General, Yi jing, I ching, Philosophy, Chinese, Confucianism Scriptures - Texts with...
Translation of: Ateisten och den heliga staden
Topics: POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Klein, George, 1925-, Oncologists, Cancer, Science, Philosophy,...
"Adapted and enlarged from the ... [author's thesis] presented to the Yale Law School in 1970 under the title: Offshore natural resources exploitation and the world public order."
Topics: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics, Marine resources conservation, Maritime law,...
Includes bibliographical references
Topics: SCIENCE / Physics / General, Thermodynamics, Thermodynamica, Statistische mechanica, Thermodynamik
While few historians would dispute the importance of the printed book in the development of domestic design in 18th- and 19th-century Britain, this is the first major study to trace the evolution of architectural ideas during the period by examining the literary output of architects. It is a work of extraordinary scholarship, based on an extensive search of dozens of major library collections, that will serve as a standard resource for researchers and librarians, book dealers and...
Topics: Architecture, Domestic, Architecture, Architecture, Architecture domestique, Grande-Bretagne,...
This interdisciplinary survey brings together recent models and experiments on how the brain sees and learns to recognize objects. It shows how to use these insights in technology and describes how neural networks provide a unifying computational framework for reaching these goals. Several chapters describe experiments in neurobiology and visual perception that clarify properties of biological vision and key conceptual issues that biological models need to address. Other chapters describe...
Topics: PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology, Neural networks (Computer science), Computer vision, Image...
Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-395) and index
Topics: Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969, Wachsmann, Konrad, Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969, Wachsmann, Konrad,...
This book presents the second in the renewed Wicksell Lecture Series, sponsored by the Swedish Economic Association. In it, Peter A. Diamond discusses search equilibrium as a framework for integrating micro and macroeconomics. He first presents a formal model which addresses the difficulty and cost of coordinating trade (finding a trade partner) and notes the impact of costly trade coordination on production decisions. He then relates the model to the existing literature, and discusses micro...
Topics: Economics, Equilibrium (Economics), Search theory, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Économie...
Translation of Prognoz pogody kak zadacha fiziki
Topics: SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / General, Weather forecasting, Temps (Météorologie), Prévision du,...
Does seller concentration in a market raise prices? Many attempts have been made to test this classic hypothesis of oligopoly theory, none of them convincing. Leonard Weiss and his colleagues have devised and applied a systematic set of direct tests of the concentration price hypothesis. In an innovative series of empirical studies, they examine the effect of concentration on price for the same item sold in markets that vary because of space, time, or transaction. They conclude that...
Topics: Industrial concentration, Prices, Pricing, Precios, Concentration industrielle, Prix, Prix,...
Published in 1896, The Sense of Beauty secured Santayana's reputation as a philosopher and continued to outsell all of his books until the publication of his one novel, The Last Puritan. Even today, it is one of the most widely read volumes in all of Santayana's vast philosophical work. It is a large irony that Santayana disowned The Sense of Beauty from the beginning, and wrote it only to keep his job teaching at Harvard. In 1950 he met with the philosopher Arthur Danto in the Roman convent...
Topics: PHILOSOPHY / General, Santayana, George, 1863-1952, Aesthetics, Esthétique, Esthetica,...
Simulating Computer Systems provides an introduction to simulation for computer and communication-system designers who want to analyze the performance of their designs. In it MacDougall describes a discrete-event simulation language called smpl, discusses simulation modeling with smpl (using a variety of models as examples), describes the design of smpl, and presents a C language implementation.The book's first part introduces smpl simulation operations using a queueing network simulation...
Topics: Computer simulation, Computer simulation, Computer systems Design
In light of research over the last decade on new ways of representing and performing computations, this book provides a timely reexamination of computer organization and computer architecture. It systematically investigates the basic organizational concepts of reduction, data flow, and control flow (or state transition) and their relationship to the underlying programming paradigms. For each of these concepts, Kluge looks at how principles of language organization translate into architectures...
Topics: COMPUTERS / Computer Science, Computer organization, Data flow computing, Computerarchitectuur,...
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International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Futures (3rd : 1989 : Cambridge, Mass.); McCullough, Malcolm; Mitchell, William J. (William John), 1944-2010; Purcell, Patrick
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For centuries architects have carried out shape computations by hand, using informal procedures and the simplest of tools. Over the last two decades, however, they have made increasing use of more formal procedures executed by computers, a development that raises challenging questions of architectural theory and perplexing issues for those concerned with the future of architectural education. In four parts - theoretical foundations, electronic media in the design studio, information delivery...
Topics: Architectural design, Computer-aided design, Architectural design, Architectural design,...
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-306)
Topics: SCIENCE / Physics / Electricity, Electricity, Magnetism, Magnetics, Electricity, to 1970,...
Includes bibliographical references
Topics: Kahn, Albert, 1869-1942, Kahn, Albert, Kahn, Albert, 1869-1942, Kahn, Albert, 1869-1942, Kahn,...
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Spooner, Brian, editor; University of Pennsylvania. Near East Center; University of Pennsylvania. University Museum; University of Pennsylvania. Department of Anthropology
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"Proceedings of a colloquium in general anthropology entitled 'Population, resources, and technology, ' held at the University of Pennsylvania, March 11-14, 1970, under the combined auspices of the Near East Center, the University Museum, and the Department of Anthropology of the University of Pennsylvania, in association with the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Incorporated."
Topics: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, Population, Social change, Technological innovations, Changement...
Includes bibliographical references
Topics: SCIENCE / Physics / General, Crystals, Elasticity, Bibliographie, Einkristall, Elastizität,...
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Ingle, David; Goodale, Melvyn A; Mansfield, Richard J. W; NATO Advanced Study Institute (1978 : Brandeis University)
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Analysis of Visual Behavior encompasses both theoretical and experimental research. It deals with the visual mechanisms of diverse vertebrate species from salamanders and toads to primates and humans and presents a stimulating interaction of the disciplines of anatomy, physiology, and behavioral science. Throughout, visual mechanisms are investigated from the point of view of the brain functioning at the organismic level, as opposed to the now more prevalent focus on the molecular and cellular...
Topics: Visual perception, Perceptual-motor processes, Psychology, Comparative, Psychophysiology,...
Includes index
Topics: COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / General, FORTRAN (Computer program language), Computer...
The transition from serial to parallel computing in which many operations are performed simultaneously and at tremendous speed, marks a new era in computation. These original essays explore the emerging modalities and potential impact of this technological revolution.Daniel Hillis, inventor of the superfast Connection Machine, provides a clear explanation of massively parallel computing. The essays that follow investigate the rich possibilities, as well as the constraints, that parallel...
Topics: Parallel processing (Electronic computers), Parallel processing (Electronic computers), Parallelle...
Includes bibliographical references and index
Topics: ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, Zoning, Land use, Right of property
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-171)
Topics: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance, Options (Finance), Spéculation, Titres au comptoir, Bourse,...
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-327)
Topics: SCIENCE / History, Mathematics, Mathématiques, Wiskunde, Onderwijs, Mathematikunterricht, Schools...
Originally presented as the author's thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1960
Topics: International business enterprises, Investments, Foreign, Investments, American, Corporations,...
Foreword by David Gordon Wilson Published in 1896, Bicycles and Tricycles was the first serious, scientifically based study of the bicycle. It begins with a general exposition of mechanical principles: dynamic, static, and straining forces. It then covers successive experiments at bicycle and tricycle design, including several "mechanical monstrosities."With the aid of elegant, sometimes humorous drawings, the book examines various designs for their relative stability, steering...
Topics: Bicycles, Tricycles, Bicyclettes et tricycles, Bicycles, Tricycles, Bicycles & tricycles Design...
This book is the first comprehensive treatment of the "fractional representation" approach to linear feedback system design and analysis, an approach that has recently taken the control theory field by storm. It unfolds several basic themes, virtually all of which are new and which are destined to play a fundamental role in algebraic system theory in years to come.It offers a very basic introduction to the factorization method for scalar systems and a thorough treatment of coprime...
Topics: Control theory, Factorization (Mathematics), sensibilité, filtrage, système scalaire, anneau...
In 1884 Sir William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin) delivered a significant series of lectures on physics at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. The lectures remain important because, through their explicit presentation of the theories and metaphysical assumptions of the Newtonian mechanistic tradition, they illuminate the roots of the revolution in physics that began around 1900.This book presents the twenty lectures in their original form for the first time. (A greatly revised version of...
Topics: Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron, 1824-1907, Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron, 1824-1907, Kelvin,...
"Includes 88 sound examples that are discussed in Current directions in computer music research edited by Max V. Mathews and John R. Pierce"--Insert
Topics: Computer music, Computer music
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-335)
Topics: Automobiles, Automobiles, Automobiles, Kraftfahrzeug, Automobiles - Histoire, Kraftfahrzeug
Thesis (Ph. D.)--MIT, 1985
Topics: Connection machines, Artificial intelligence
Includes bibliographical references and index
Topics: SCIENCE / Energy, Nuclear energy, Nuclear industry, Accidents, Occupational, Nuclear Reactors,...
